build dist into packages/web3/dist,fix #1041

[gasolin]

The new web3 1.x package is published via packages/web3.
The dist/ is missing in new web3 module because of the generated dist/ is not located in web3/packages/web3/dist.

The patch

• fixed links in packages/web3/README.md
• move web3/dist to web3/packages/web3/dist so npm publish will include dist/ folder in web3 module.

[coveralls]

Coverage remained the same at 85.741% when pulling d739449 on gasolin:1.0 into dd55daa on ethereum:1.0.

[coveralls]

Coverage remained the same at 85.63% when pulling 5814b84 on gasolin:1.0 into c0e727e on ethereum:1.0.

[frozeman]

Why would you want the mist folder in the npm module?

[gasolin]

@frozeman for example if a web developer want to make a DApp to query on-chain block status, they just need to create a HTML page and include the dist/web3.min.js file into it.

example like https://github.com/trufflesuite/truffle-contract#browser-usage

[guix77]

Actually I tend to agree with @gasolin, it's convenient not to have to build it and just include it from /dist. Why do you .npmignore it on the 1.0 branch and not on the stable branch ?

[gasolin]

Rebased the patch. To avoid the conflict, require run npm build command to generate packages/web3/dist/ after apply this patch.

@frozeman how do you think?

[slyfox42]

Hi guys, any updates on this? I need to inject web3 directly in the browser when running feature tests with Puppeteer since I cannot have MetaMask. Since the dist folder and the web3.min.js file is not included I have to use RawGit to point to the minified file on the repo, which works but is not ideal.

[nivida]

Hey all,

This should be fixed with the PR #2000. I'll provide on the next release for each module a UMD, commonJS and ESM bundle.